"The government is wrong. It is wrong because it is clueless," Chidambaram said. "It is unable to look for the obvious clues because it is stubborn and mulish in defending its catastrophic mistakes like demonetisation, flawed GST, tax terrorism, regulatory overkill, protectionism, and centralised control of decision-making in the Prime Minister's Office."
They said Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has opened the door to a much wider level of US involvement in India's development plans in the coming years.
Sources in the Rural Development Ministry said the actual expenditure incurred in 2020-21 will be higher than the allocated funds and it will at least be at par with this year's total estimated expenditure of MGNREGS.
The government has chosen to profiteer off people's misery and suffering, Gandhi said.
Amid an outcry over record high petrol and diesel prices, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the Centre and state governments will have to together work out a mechanism to bring retail rates to reasonable levels.
Amidst the flurry of political activities in Delhi over selection of the Presidential nominee, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, whose name has been reported to be Congress' first choice as candidate, on Thursday telephoned former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
Bank officials said police constable Ghanshyam Shyora entered the Canara Bank's Saroli branch on Monday in plain clothes and asked female employee Santoshi Kumari to print his passbook.
Ex-finance minister Madhu Dandavate dead
In Mr Chidambaram's third stint as finance minister, which lasted till his government was voted out in May this year, he had a fairly pressing crisis to deal with.
President Ram Nath Kovind presented Padma awards to 73 individuals, some posthumously, at a ceremony held in the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday.
The BJP's quest for dominance over the states political scene, evident from a seat-sharing deal as part of which it clinched nearly as many constituencies as the Janata Dal-United its senior partner so far- resonated during the election campaign.
Reacting to the announcement, MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari said clearing GST dues within 30 days will be highly beneficial for the MSME sector and will also be instrumental in increasing job opportunities.
BJP CMs promote a lawless culture, one where groups backed by the State are encouraged to attack fellow citizens, where being trigger-happy is the official police policy, notes Jyoti Punwani.
All transfers and promotions for next financial year will be decided by respective banks, not by the merged entity.
Many PSU banks had recently cut interest rate on loans for two-wheelers and consumer durables.
The move to resume work in ministries comes nearly a month after the government issued work from home protocols in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The government has retained Arvind Subramanian as its chief economic advisor, unlike other American professors Dr Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Panagariya, who quit their jobs as RBI governor and NITI deputy chairman respectively.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced no new taxes in the Delhi Budget.
"They are calling us dramabaaz. What happened yesterday by stopping migrants and interacting with them on the road and wasting their time? Aren't they dramabaaz?," she quipped.
Three suspected associates of Karti --Bhaskar Raman, Ravi Vishwanathan and Mohanan Rakesh -- are also being questioned
Sibal told the court that there was a noticeable loss in Chidambaram's weight and his health was deteriorating in jail.
While the Union finance minister has opted out of the election race -- one of the many Congress bigwigs who are not very confident of their electoral prospects this time around, Ghulam Nabi Azad has volunteered to contest from the Udhampur seat even though he is a sitting Rajya Sabha member. Anita Katyal reports on the Congress' fourth list of Lok Sabha candidates that was released late on Thursday night.
While presenting the Interim Budget 2014-15, the Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said that in the next three decades India will become the third largest economy behind US and China.
Sinha said it was not possible to control inflation unless steps were taken to check fiscal deficit.
'Would this crackdown of the terrorist module by NIA have been possible without interception of electronic communications?'
A senior company executive said the company waited for seven years for the verdict and its shareholders needed to know when it would be concluded.
This is the first time that the 73-year-old former finance and home minister is being grilled by the ED in this case.
Parrikar submitted his resignation after BJP staked claim to form an alliance government in Goa.
'It is just an excuse to say that the Centre has run out of money.' 'Pruning these schemes would mean hard time for the people of India.'
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was on Friday caught on camera talking on his mobile phone when the national anthem was being played.
The application for narco analysis test assumes significance as the agency yesterday alleged that Karti was not cooperating in the investigation and was 'evasive' in his replies.
Govt has taken corrective steps to revitalise investor enthusiasm, spur growth, and tame spending.
The Indian State does not believe in the rule of law. It does not even recognise the need to follow treaties that it itself signed. And so it is refusing to shell out to Cairn; and, as a consequence, has brought on the Paris humiliation, notes Mihir S Sharma.
To meet the financing requirements of the infrastructural deficit, many more institutions are required to share this responsibility, Chidambaram said on Tuesday, while launching operations of India's first Infrastructure Debt Fund under the NBFC Structure by handing over the First IDF -- NBFC License to the Promoters of India Infra Debt Limited -- ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda, Citibank and Life Insurance of Corporation.
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said the Group of Ministers headed by him will work towards giving Central Bureau of Investigation "functional autonomy" but at the same time asserted that accountability is "important".
The finance minister, suffering from a kidney ailment, has been undergoing dialysis for the last one month.
In a pre-budget memorandum, submitted to the Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, the US India Business Council said it was concerned over the several recent policy initiatives of the Indian government in this regard.
Commenting on economic reforms, he claimed that accord is necessary to achieve these objectives in India.
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